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S.A. NAT., VOI-. XIV. 
May, 193.5. By Brniard C. Cotton and I . h. Godirry. 
1864: = Ifausicllodoris Pease 1871: — Rhacodoris Morch 1863: 
llexahranchus Cray, not of Ehrenberg: z=z Dendrodoris Ehr- 
enberg). External characters very similar to Doris, but of softer 
consistency and with an undulating mantle edge; mouth, a fine 
pore; buccal gland at imsterior end of ['haryngcal bulb in front 
of the salivary glands, 1 ype — Doris Umbata Cuvier. The spawn 
is ribbon shaped. 
D. aurea. Qiioy & Caimard 1832 {Doris), PI. 3. fig. 8, 
Animal oval, convex, smooth; golden-yellow spotted with 
Avhite; tentacles laminated. Length IS, breadth 6 mm. 
Orontes Shoal (Yorke I^eninsula), S4 fathoms; American 
River (Kangaroo Island 9 fathoms, on weed. (Type locality — 
Jervis Bay, New South Wales, deep water). Quoy 5c Caimard 
add: “‘This species is oval, the back raised, rounded, smooth; 
colour a beautiful velvety orange, with some while dots on the 
upper parts; tentacles fairly long, olive coloured, transversely 
lamcllatcd; branchiae have five divisions, very finely branched 
out of the same colour as the body; mouth only just apparent 
Idle ramifications of the veins are well seen beneath the mantle, 
which is not usually the case with the Doris group.” Basedow 
and Hedley remark: “d'he French authors describe their species 
as o\'cr two inches in length, ours is only 15 mm long and 6 mm. 
broad. The white dots on the back are more regularly dis- 
posed in Quoy 5c Caimard’s figure, and the foot in South Aus- 
tralian specimens is white, whereas, in the figure quoted, it is red.” 
D. carneola Angas 1864 {Doris). PI. 3, fip. 11, 12, 
Animal oval. golden-brown, lightly dotted with white 
(not .conspicuously besprinkled); branchiae large, branch- 
ing, white. Length 29. breadth 17.5 mm. Marino, from under 
rocks, at low water. (Type locality — Port Jackson). The col- 
ouration of one South Australian example was identified with that 
of the I^ort Jackson type, while another individual from Marino 
had quite a difierent colour scheme. It was a dirty greyish-white 
on the back, speckled w'ith silvery-wTite dots, wdiich arc connect- 
ed b}’ a faint net-work of white lines, the central space in the re- 
gion of the liver appearing pinkish or brown; ventral surface 
white. 'Fhe underside of the mantle of both individuals is marked 
with delicate vein-like multiple branching lines. The mantle is 
ample, hard, thick, and fortified with numerous calc-spicules. 
The foot is large, and terminates bluntly. 'Phe rhinophores are 
clavate, with about ten laminae; situated rather far anteriorly; 
colour yellow or white. We do not note_ the projecting sheaths 
of these tentacles, that are apparently represented in Angas’s 
sketch. Branchial plumes four, tripinnate, light orange or white 
(Basedow 5c Fledley). 
